Tags for '1990s'
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Game: Heretic II
Release Date: Oct 31, 1998You wouldn't want to live there, but the world of Heretic II is a beautiful place to visit. -
Release Date: Jan 31, 1998As an expansion pack for a now-classic first-person action game, Sith is very good - but it isn't great. -
Release Date: Nov 23, 1998Ocarina of Time definitely follows in the footsteps of the previous games, and the result is a game that can't be called anything other than flawless. -
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Release Date: Sep 30, 1997Arguably the best single-player first-person shooter since Doom. -
Game: Half-Life
Release Date: Oct 31, 1998Half-Life is the closest thing to a revolutionary step the genre has ever taken. -
Release Date: Oct 31, 1995TIE Fighter is the best space combat game ever made. -
Game: Donkey Kong 64
Release Date: Oct 31, 1999Those of you who remotely liked Mario 64 or Banjo-Kazooie will be excited to the point of numbness by this game. -
Release Date: Feb 29, 1996A breakthrough in outdoor 3-D action sims, Terra Nova gives mech games and flight sims something to aspire to. -
Game: Descent II
Release Date: Feb 29, 1996If you don't like Descent at least a little bit, make no mistake, there is something wrong with you. -
Release Date: May 31, 1998It's a noble effort to both cannibalize the best elements of classics of the genre and also provide a number of refreshing innovations. -
Game: Final Doom
Release Date: May 31, 1996Like an aging athlete, the time has come for Doom to hang up its gloves and exit gracefully from the scene. -
Game: Star Wars Dark Forces
Release Date: Feb 28, 1995One of the first titles to actually improve upon the Doom formula, Dark Forces managed to rise above “me-too” status and become a great game in its own right. -
Game: Descent
Release Date: Feb 28, 1995No exploding body parts or fireball-vomiting demons here--Descent puts an industrial spin on the genre by taking you into the bowels of huge factory-like space stations to fight mining robots gone mad. -
Game: Banjo-Kazooie
Release Date: May 31, 1998It doesn't stray too far from the formula, but it makes the logical progressions you would expect Nintendo to make. -
Release Date: May 31, 1998The question you need to ask yourself is whether you enjoy Quake II enough to merit playing it again, because The Reckoning is a supplement rather than an improvement. -
Game: Gangsters
Release Date: Nov 30, 1998Gangsters has many interesting features, but they don't come together in the big picture. -
Game: Fallout 2
Release Date: Sep 30, 1998The core elements of 1997's best role-playing game are intact and, in several ways, have been improved. -
Game: Deathtrap Dungeon
Release Date: Jul 31, 1998If you didn't care for Tomb Raider's third-person perspective and camera angles then Deathtrap Dungeon will probably leave you cold.
